Sodium is an exciting new game area in Home. Access the Sodium Hub in the Cental Plaza or via the World Map (under the Sodium chip).

Recent updates:

On March 12, we reached 30 million robotic scorpions stomped and easily met the goal time. As a reward, those who helped will get a free emoticon Home reward item the next time they visit the Sodium Hub.

On March 11, additional objectives and home rewards have been added to Desert Quench. Note that these are not retroactive. Scorpion Stomp has new grade stomper boots that are awarded at different milestones.

As of March 3, the reward items associated with invitations are now awarded with the Jibber Jabber objective. If you already have that objective, simply go to the Sodium Hub and you'll receive the items.

On February 25, the Salt Shooter Game space is back to being a personal space again and is no longer a public space.

On February 18 additional objective and home rewards have been added for the Salt Shooter. You will get any accolades for levels you've already completed once you play the Salt Shooter the first time after the update.

Once you enter the first time, you are given a personal space where the [SodiumOne] game is played. Note that unlike your other personal spaces, you cannot add any furnishings.

Also, the first time you enter the mini games and other "set dressings" have to download in the background. You'll see a Home System message in the chat log when they are done (white text with a Home symbol). You might want to wait a moment and let this process finish before you walk around too much. This place is quite immense.

In this space, there are a number of mini games and interactive objects.

VICKIE

[Salt Shooter] Tank Trainer

Scorpion Stomp

Desert Quench

In addition, there is a teleporter that takes you to the space where the SodiumOne game is located. There is also a Commerce Point for access to relevant items in the PS Store.

You don't have to pay anything to try out any of these games. You can play levels 1-5 of [SodiumOne] in the Salt Shooter Game and stomp on yellow scorpions. There is no cost to order drinks or mix them. If you want to play higher levels or stomp on other colors of scorpions, you'll need to buy some items (see below).

Ultimately, you'll be earning Sodium Credits that you can trade in for Home items.

Once everything is loaded, the first thing you should do is talk to VICKIE, the android NPC. She's in the room where you first enter, right in front of you. Then start exploring the rest of the Sodium Hub. If you get lost, you can check out a map of the space.

By the way, you can walk a far distance out and about the buildings. Don't worry: if you get too far away, you'll be teleported back to just outside Scorpio's. Explore away!

Sodium Hub Interactive Objects and Mini Games

VICKIE

Objectives

View the status of your current objectives.

Here, you can check on your progress in objectives, most of which earn you credits. These can also be checked on the website once you register.

Resource Trading

Trade resources for Sodium Credit.

Resources are Gold, Silver, and Silicon obtained while playing [SodiumOne]

Right now the conversion rates are

Gold = 25 credits

Silver = 5 credits

Silicon = 1 credit

Shop

Buy items with Sodium Credits.

Here you can purchase Home items using credits. See the post below for the current items.

Gift Friends (This is option is currently disabled in the EU)

Earn a free prize by inviting your friends.

In this option, you can send an XMB message to all your friends. Don't worry about spamming your friends: you will only send messages to friends who have not yet been invited by someone.

Note: the awarding of the prize for inviting has been disabled indefinitly. There is no ETA on its return. Similarly, the reward of an item for being invited has also been disabled.

Connect (This is option is currently disabled in the EU)

Connect with the online Sodium Community.

Selecting this option displays a message that you will need in order to register online.

The code generated is unique to your PSN ID. Initially it was four characters long, but now it is twelve.

Note: note that the new code is all uppercase letters. Enter the code exactly as it shows in Home! Your PSN ID also has to be entered with the exact capitalization.

Note2: Be sure that you enter a valid e-mail address. Once you associate the e-mail with your PSN ID, you won't be able to change it. You need to click on a link in the e-mail to finalize the registration. Until you do that, you are not registered!

[Salt Shooter] Tank Trainer

The [Salt Shooter] Tank Trainer is a very pared down version of the Sodium One game played in the arena attached to the hub's "buildings".

For every enemy you destroy, you get 0.2 points. Find out how high of a score you can get! If you do well enough, you can complete objectives and recevie sodium credits when they unlock.

Controls

Scorpion Stomp

Scorpion Stomp is a mini-game located near Scorpios, the bar. There is a smaller stomping ground near the Twitter screens. Your goal is quite straightforward: stomp scorpions!

Scorpions come in three colors: yellow, red, and blue.

Scorpions:

yellow

medium

Anyone can stomp these. You don't have to buy anything.

1 point

red

large

Wear the Stomper Boots (from Commerce Point) to be able to stomp these.

5 points

blue

small

You need to drink Vetoxade from Scorpios to be able to stomp these (see below). Stomper Boots are not required.

3 points

Beware when stomping scorpions! If you get stung, your screen turns greenish and blotchy for a short time. While it's like this, you cannot stomp and are susceptible to even more stings if you get close to a scorpion. The sting from a blue scorpion iasts longer.

Tip: even though the hints suggest it's best to approach from the back, it seems easier to stomp if you are running across the scorpion from the side. Imagine your path as going along a line from a rear leg to the front leg on the opposite side. You can even stomp while dancing! Go ahead, give it a try!

Vetoxade

You get a Vetoxade in the Scorpio's bar by combining a cross glass, green beverage, sodium stirrer, and a strawberry. There are no requirements for difficulty, but just be sure that the bartender serves you the right drink. Vetoxade allows you to stomp the blue scorpions for a limited time and provides immunity to all scorpion stings. Once you drink it, a meter appears in the top left corner of the screen and drains away after 100 seconds. Once it's gone, you'll need to drink another Vetoxade to get the effects again.

Now that you know about the types of scorpions and how to stomp them, you need to know about points and the multiplier.

Multipliers

In the top right is your combo counter. As you stomp scorpions, your counter goes up. If you get stung, your counter goes back to the beginning of the previous multiplier level. For every ten (10) robotic scorpions that you stomp without being stung, a glowing orb lights up and your combo increases. At first your max combo is 4x, and you will stay at your max even if you keep stomping without being stung. In order to increase it, you'll need to unlock higher levels by geting higher scores during a single session. You'll get an objective message when you unlock them and a new orb will appear. Once you have a multiplier unlocked, it remains so for all future sessions.

First unlockable multiplier

6x

unlocks at 800 session points

Second unlockable multiplier

8x

unlocks at 6,000 session points

Third and final unlockable multiplier

10x

unlocks at 90,000 session points

As long as you stay in Sodium Hub (and don't travel to a different space or instance of it) your score and counts are all retained. So feel free to walk out of the stomping grounds, go to the bar, hang out with your friends and come back and stomp some more.

Stomper Boot Grades

If you have purchased the Stomper Boots, then you'll be awarded with upgraded versions of the boots as you stomp red scorpions. These reward items are new pairs of boots with the grade number indicated by a glowing white number on the side. There are a total of five grades of new boots, with the unlocks at 25, 300, 600, 2000, and 5000 red robotic scorpions.

You can you can equip these new boots to add points to each red scorpion stomped, with the number of points matching the grade.These points are added before the multiplier, so they can really increase your score. Note that the boots have to be worn to get the bonus points; just having them in your inventory is not enough!

Desert Quench

Desert Quench is played in Scorpio's, the bar of the Sodium Hub.

There are two roles in the game: the bartender and the customer. The customer places an order be selecting from a pad. There are four slots of choices with many options for each choice. The bartender takes the order and plays a memory game to create the order as quickly and accurately as possible. After the drink is served, the customer plays a button press mini game to consume it.

This is where Vetoxade is obtained for Scorpion Stomp and it is made by combining a cross glass, green beverage, sodium stirrer, strawberry. There are no requirements for difficulty, but just be sure that the bartender serves you the right drink.

Bartending now can earn you credits when you are wearing both the Bartender. The baseline score is 5 sodium credits for each correct component of the drink, so there's a maximum of 20 sodium credits per drink.

Drinking accurately also gives credits, and the number of credits depends on the difficulty level and accuracy. Easy has a baseline of 3, medium 6 and hard 10. These baselines are multiplied by the accuracy percentage and rounded down.

[SodiumOne]

Menu

Launch

Select Level

also displays both your and the the global high score for the level

Change Equipment

Settings

Turn Music on/off

Controls

Exit

Equipment

Since it's more involved, the items in the Change Equipment menu is broken out below. I'll be adding equipment as I and others find them.

You can spend upgrade parts to give boosts to your equipment. The amount needed to upgrade to the next level is indicated in parentheses. The cost to upgrade to each level is double, so only the cost of the first upgrade is shown. For instance, Mk1 (3) indicates that the progressions is Mk1 (3) : Mk2 (6) : Mk3 (12) : Mk4 (24) : Mk5 (48) for a total of 93 upgrade parts. Similarly, Mk1 (6) indicates that the progressions is Mk1 (6) : Mk2 (12) : Mk3 (24) : Mk4 (48) : Mk5 (96) for a total of 186 upgrade parts. Once you upgrade, you cannot respec and get the upgrade parts back, so upgrade what you need and don't waste your parts on a piece of equipment you won't use or will be soon replacing.

Change Equipment

Thrusters

3 Slots

Left, Right, Rear

Starting equipment: [all start as Turbo Propfan Mk1]

Equipment

Turbo Propfan: Mk1 (3)

Air-Breathing Jet Engine: Mk1 (6)

Guns

2 Slots

1, 2

Starting equipment: [one 50cal Repeater Mk1, on right]

Equipment

50cal Repeater: Mk1 (3)

40mm Cannon: Mk1 (6)

50mm DU Cannon: Mk1 (12)

Missiles

2 Slots

1, 2

Starting equipment: [none]

Equipment

Roadrunner Missile Launcher: Mk1 (3)

Arrowhead Missile Launcher: Mk1 (3)

Bullpup Missile Launcher: Mk1 (12)

Countermeasures

2 Slots

1, 2

Starting equipment: [none]

Equipment

Light Point Defense Laser: Mk1 (3)

Afterburner

Starting equipment: [Single Jet Afterburner Mk1]

Equipment

Single Jet Afterbuner: Mk1 (3)

Upgrades

[all start with none]

Rate of Fire

Handling

Performance Hydraulics: Mk1 (3)

Engine

Fuel Processor: Mk1 (3)

Targeting

Ammo Store

Expanded Ammo Magazine: Mk1 (3)

Armor

Auto-Repair

Heat Sink

Basic Heat Sink: Mk1 (3)

Drops

As you play a game, when you destroy your enemies, they can drop items. There are three different colors of pickups:

gold can be upgrade parts or resources (gold, silver, silicon) that you can trade at VICKIE for credits,

red restock your missiles, and

blue replenish some of your health.

Each pickup can contain a multiplier, so you might get 3x silicon from a single gold pickup.

Missions: Waves and Unlocks

In general, each mission has two waves of differing numbers and kinds of enemies. These range from flying ships to towers.

You will acquire new equipment as you complete missions.

General tips:

Always be sure to go equip any new items that you get. That's not done automatically for you. Also, you can replay a level to get more upgrade parts to improve your equipment. You will likely need to do this in order to get past the bosses. If you find a level too hard, think about upgrading or trying a different strategy.

Pay attention to your heat per shot from your guns and missiles. This becomes important once you start upgrading, as you don't want to overheat in the midst of battle, otherwise you will have to wait until you cool down.

For the towers that begin to appear in Mission 3, you should keep your distance and take out the defense / offense side towers before taking out the central one. If you have enough DPS, you can take out towers just as they land. If you're able to take out the central tower, the suppor ones crash upon landing (though you get no pickups or points). It's a good idea to lure enemies away from the towers and use the blue pickups wisely.

Boss level tips:

Level 5

You'll need to upgrade your equipment. Don't forget about your Light Point Defense Laser, as that will help with some of the boss's attacks. Try to get through the first wave with full health if possible by moving from the left or right instead of flying between the two groups of enemies. Once the boss appears, take out the support tanks as quickly as possible and keep your distance from the boss tank. This boss does not have any particular weakness, but should go down reasonably fast with your upgraded missiles.

Objectives

The objectives you'll be completing revolve around social activities in the space, games, and interaction with in-game NPC's.

Initially, you'll have three types of Objectives, with the fourth added soon:

Sodium

Scorpio's

Scorpions

[SodiumOne]

These involve admin actions, playing the bartending minigame at Scorpio's, stomping Scorpions, and playing the [SodiumOne] game.

You can get credits and sometimes Home rewards for completing objectives. Both of these are noted in the list below.

Check on which objectives you have by talking to VICKIE and choosing Objectives. You can also check your status online at http://www.sodiumone.com/ after signing in. As you progress in an objective that requires doing sometime multiple times, the grey line will fill up with the number you have completed shown on the right.

Fully completed objectives will turn red, like so:

Note: that you can complete an objective even if it's currently hidden from display on the screen.

Hint: Have you thought about buying the Stomp Boots and making it easier?

500 Sodium Credits

Building Up An Immunity

Get stung 100 times.

Hint: It's probably worth the pain.

10 Sodium Credits

Pin Cushion

Get stung 1000 times.

Hint: Ouch!

20 Sodium Credits

Indestructable

Avoid getting stung 100 times while being immune.

Hint: Like a shield of steel

500 Sodium Credits

Didn't Stand A chance

Stomp a robotic scorpion within 0.5 seconds of it emerging.

Hint: Keep your eye on the ground…

1000 Sodium Credits

Bi-Centennial Scorpion

Stomp 200 robotic scorpions in a single session.

Hint: Don't let them get away.

50 Sodium Credits

Becoming An Obsession

Stomp 500 robotic scorpions in single session.

Hint: Can the flood be stopped?

1000 Sodium Credits

Taking The Physical Challenge

Obtain the first unlockable multiplier level.

Hint: A higher session score might help...

100 Sodium Credits

Taking It To The Next Level

Obtain the second unlockable multiplier level.

Hint: A higher session score might help...

500 Sodium Credits

The Sky's The Limit

Obtain the final unlockable multiplier level.

Hint: A higher session score might help...

1000 Sodium Credits

Scorpion Stomp Newbie

Obtain the level 1 stomper boots.

Hint: Stomp 25 red robotic scorpions.

0 Sodium Credits

Home Reward: Sodium Scorpion Stompter Boots Grade 1

Scorpion Stomp Amateur

Obtain the level 2 stomper boots.

Hint: Stomp 300 red robotic scorpions.

0 Sodium Credits

Home Reward: Sodium Scorpion Stompter Boots Grade 2

Scorpion Stomp Champion

Obtain the level 3 stomper boots.

Hint: Stomp 600 red robotic scorpions.

0 Sodium Credits

Home Reward: Sodium Scorpion Stompter Boots Grade 3

Scorpion Stomp Veteran

Obtain the level 4 stomper boots.

Hint: Stomp 2000 red robotic scorpions.

0 Sodium Credits

Home Reward: Sodium Scorpion Stompter Boots Grade 4

Scorpion Stomp Elite

Obtain the level 5 stomper boots.

Hint: Stomp 5000 red robotic scorpions.

0 Sodium Credits

Home Reward: Sodium Scorpion Stompter Boots Grade 5

30 Million Silent Screams

Unite with other players to stomp a total of 30 million robotic scorions.

Hint: Work together to stomp more robotic scorpion pests.

0 Sodium Credits

Home Reward: 30 million stomps emoticon

Scorpio's Bronze Customer

Obtain the Bronze Customer Accolade at Scorpios.

Hint: Gain a total of 100 Sodium Credits as a customer.

0 Sodium Credits

Home Reward: Quench Customer Bronze Accolade

Scorpio's Silver Customer

Obtain the Silver Customer Accolade at Scorpios.

Hint: Gain a total of 500 Sodium Credits as a customer.

0 Sodium Credits

Home Reward: Quench Customer Silver Accolade

Scorpio's Gold Customer

Obtain the Gold Customer Accolade at Scorpios.

Hint: Gain a total of 100 Sodium Credits as a customer.

0 Sodium Credits

Home Reward: Quench Customer Gold Accolade

Scorpio's Bronze Employee

Obtain the Bronze Employee Accolade at Scorpios.

Hint: Gain a total of 100 Sodium Credits as a bartender.

0 Sodium Credits

Home Reward: Quench Employee Bronze Accolade

Scorpio's Silver Employee

Obtain the Silver Employee Accolade at Scorpios.

Hint: Gain a total of 500 Sodium Credits as a bartender.

0 Sodium Credits

Home Reward: Quench Employee Silver Accolade

Scorpio's Gold Employee

Obtain the Gold Employee Accolade at Scorpios.

Hint: Gain a total of 2000 Sodium Credits as a bartender.

0 Sodium Credits

Home Reward: Quench Employee Gold Accolade

Raw Recruit

Complete a Salt Shooter training mission.

Hint: Learn the ropes in our training facility near the entrance to Sodium.

50 Sodium Credits

Flying Colours

Reach ranking of 10 in the training.

Hint: Prove your worth in the training arena and join the elite.

500 Sodium Credits

Now You're Just Showing Off

Reach ranking of 15 in the training.

Hint: Purchase the full Salt Shooter and show us what you can really do.

1000 Sodium Credits

Kleptomaniac

Collect 250 resources from the Salt Shooter arena.

Hint:

{} Sodium Credits

Become One Of The Elite

Play the Salt Shooter Game.

Hint: Buy your Pilot Jacket from the nearest commerce point.

50 Sodium Credits

S1 Salt

Obtain the Salt Accolade for Salt Shooter.

Hint: Complete level 3 of Salt Shooter.

0 Sodium Credits

Home Reward: Salt 'Salt Shooter' Accolade

S1 Bronze

Obtain the Bronze Accolade for Salt Shooter.

Hint: Complete level 5 of Salt Shooter.

0 Sodium Credits

Home Reward: Bronze 'Salt Shooter' Accolade

Gladiator

Reach level 10.

Hint: Practice hard and become one of the best.

500 Sodium Credits

S1 Silver

Obtain the Silver Accolade for Salt Shooter.

Hint: Complete level 30 of Salt Shooter.

0 Sodium Credits

Home Reward: Silver 'Salt Shooter' Accolade

No Fear The Reaper

Beat the Reaper Boss. {Beat Mission 40}

Hint: Try upgrading your vehicle to get past this behemoth.

1000 Sodium Credits

Home Reward: Sodium One Chilli Jacket Grade Four

Worth Your Salt

Complete all 50 levels of the main attraction.

Hint: Use your skill and experience to defeat the ultimate Reaper enemy.

1500 Sodium Credits

Home Reward: Sodium One Chilli Jacket Grade Five

S1 Gold

Obtain the Gold Accolade for Salt Shooter.

Hint: Complete level 50 of Salt Shooter.

0 Sodium Credits

Home Reward: Gold 'Salt Shooter' Accolade

Lock And Load

Unlock all the weapons in the Salt Shooter.

Hint: The OCD Warrior.

500 Sodium Credits

There are a large number of items that you can purchase for funds from your PSN wallet at the Commerce Point.

Other items are obtained from VICKIE using credits that you obtain by completing the objectives and selling resources (gold, silver, silicon).

Note: The Commerce Point is where you go to buy a full license for the SodiumOne action game (as a pilot outfit for your avatar) to play levels greater than 5. Although it has other items that are also in the Sodium store in the Mall, only the items under the Sodium chip that are related to the Sodium spaces will be mentioned here.

Items that are have a game impact are marked in red.

Commerce Point

Male

Sodium

Sodium Pilot Outfit - Chilli Red Edition £3.99

Purchase the exclusive Pilot Outfit and gain access to the SodiumOne action gam

Sodium Scorpion Stomper Boots £0.79

Concrete Boots for Stomping Scorpions

Sodium Scorpio's Checkered Bartender Shirt £0.79

Sodium Scorpio's Checkered Bartender Trousers £0.79

Glow Sticks (Blue) £0.79

Animated Glowing Shoes (Blue) £0.79

Female

Sodium

Sodium Pilot Outfit - Chilli Red Edition £3.99

Purchase the exclusive Pilot Outfit and gain access to the SodiumOne action game

Sodium Scorpion Stomper Boots £0.79

Concrete Boots for Stomping Scorpions

Sodium Scorpio's Waitress Shirt with Tattoo £0.79

Sodium Scorpio's Waitress Skirt with Leg Warmers £0.79

Glow Sticks (Blue) £0.79

Animated Glowing Shoes (Blue) £0.79

Ornaments

Sodium

Long Range Plasma Emitter x 2 £0.79

Multi Shot Grenade Launcher x 2 £0.79

VICKIE Statue£1.59

(1st class) Sodium Airplane Engine Table£0.79

(1st class) Sodium Premium Airplane Chair 0.79

VICKIE > Shop

Male

Sodium Scorpios Visor Hat 25000

Sodium Animated Quench Goggles 50000

Sodium Red Glow Scorpion Tattoo 50000

Sodium Animated Scorpion Stomp T Shirt 50000

Sodium Hydro Juice T Shirt 25000

Female

Sodium Scorpios Chequered Bartender Hat 25000

Sodium Animated Quench Goggles 50000

Sodium Bikini with Red Glow Scorpion Tattoo 50000

Sodium Animated Scorpion Stomp T Shirt 50000

Sodium Hydro Juice T Shirt 25000

Furnishings

Sodium Basic Tank Chair 25000

Animated Red Neon Chair 25000

Animated Purple Neon Chair 25000

Animated Yellow Neon Chair 25000

Recent updates:

On March 10, two purchasable weapons were added to the store (under ornaments) along with VICKIE Headphones.

On Feb 18, the VICKIE Statue was added to the Commerce Point and the three Animated Neon Chairs were added to VICKIE > shop.

Can I ask, what do you get in terms of 'game impact' for the Vickie statue, glowsticks and Blue animated shoes ?

EDIT

Also, are the new guns any good compared to the anti tank guns - and can you put them both in your apartment AND on your ship (or do you have to choose which) ?

There is no 'game impact' of the vickie statue, glowsticks and blue animated shoes (this was the mistake I made, its so annoying that you carn't edit it )

As for the new guns, the missiles are good once you get used to them and the gun isn't like the rail guns as it shoots many bullets not just one at a time (this is also good once you get used to it) =D